Just in time for your weekend sessions, the latest offering from the Dan’s Comp How-To Series is one of the coolest tricks in BMX: The Hang 5. Originally created as a flatland-specific move, the Hang 5 has evolved into an all-purpose, all-terrain trick that looks magical and feels amazing to do. Dan’s Flow teammates Mike Barrow and Dylan Rhodes talk you through it.

The first ever Dan’s Comp Parking Lot Jam & Warehouse Sale went down Saturday at HQ in Mt. Vernon, Indiana and it was just plain awesome. Over 300 people at the peak of the event and non-stop ripping from riders who traveled in from all over the Midwest. The weather was perfect, the course, built by the Dan’s crew in the days prior, was on-point and the vibe was great all day long. With mini-events and best tricks throughout the afternoon, Hundreds of dollars in cash and gift certificates were handed out to those doing the biggest tricks, best lines, worst slams and handling business in the footdown arena. Chase Krolicki not only drove the furthest, but won most of the events as well. The kid is so good. Ryan Fudger from Ride BMX flew out to cover the event and the video below shows many highlights of the day. Make sure to check out all the photos below from the Dan’s Comp photogs Ryan Dunn and Jordan Timmons. It was a good day for BMX in the Midwest and we can’t thank everyone enough for coming out. We hope to see you next year!

From Ride BMX: “In a parking lot next to a corn field, quite literally, lies the headquarters of the biggest mailorder in BMX, Dan’s Comp. And on this hot Saturday afternoon, they invited riders and locals from all over to their first-ever Parking Lot Jam. Ramps were built, hot dogs were boiled, people sweated, and good times were everywhere you looked. With a super loose format, they gave away a bunch of cash via some mini best trick events such as the A-Game on the A-Frame and the 540pm 540 challenge, pulled a couple of audibles on others, and even gave away prizes for the longest drive (ended up being over 500 miles from the North Michigan crew) out. Overall, besides the heat making everything soggy, it was a damn good time. Looking forward to next year…”

Riders ready to rip.

Dan’s Comp employee and Flow Team rider Mike Barrow put in a ton of work (along with the whole Dan’s crew) to make the course awesome and got some shredding done on the finished course.

Dan’s Comp team rider and Midwest-to-Cali transplant Morgan Long flew into STL and drove out with his Dad to throw bars and slap high-fives. Morgan is awesome.

Nathan Williams drove up with his Dan’s teammate Shane Weston and a pack of dudes (and his dog) from Nashville. Nathan’s buttery styles were seen in action throughout the day.

Indy-ripper Nick Summerlot tweaked inverts and was awarded the first of several “Beef Relief” cash prizes for a painful slam after his feet blew off the pedals on a lookback on the Dumpster hip.

Midwest BMX rider and friend of Dan’s Comp, Glenn Salyers, was killed in an accident two weeks ago. The Kitchen Skatepark in South Bend, which Glenn helped design and build, is having a memorial jam and fundraiser for Glenn’s family on August 8th. We offer our sincere condolences to the friends and family of Glenn and hope that anyone who can make it out to the Jam will do so. More info at The Kitchen’s Facebook page. You can also donate in Glenn’s memory at http://www.road2recovery.com/donate/

Sam Bland from Brooklyn, NY is the winner of the Shadow Disaster Prevention contest and he is stoked! Congrats, Sam, enjoy thrashing your new Shadow parts! This contest was brought to you by Shadow Conspiracy and Dan’s Comp!

Two nice videos from two of the Street Series events this weekend. Dan’s Comp team rider Broc Raiford won the San Francisco event and has the lion’s share of clips, Devon Smillie is in there, along with MC Dak Roche. All there all’s Dan’s teammate Corey Martinez has some sick moves in the video from Berlin, as well. Check ’em out….